Friday, June 16, 2006

Images of Turkey

How appropriate…

Beautiful natural beauty

Typical street in Turkey – cobblestone roads and prominent display of the country flag

Inside a mosque…

This is Turkey

Cappadocia

The inside of a mosque – absolutely mesmerizing

Friendly Turkish people – old and young

Local man walking the streets pouring the local drink of choice for tourists – cay (Turkish tea)

Religious icon

Ephesus

Patriotic

This is definitely European style

A wealth of history

Whirling Dervishes – a must see dance act when in Turkey

Cleansing stations outside mosques are still used today before going in to pray

Beautiful, colorful tile work is common inside most, if not all mosques

Turkish ice cream being thrown around in the air

Mosques are a common piece of architecture throughout all of Turkey

Carpets, carpets and more carpets….they are EVERYWHERE!!!

The evil eye tree - this blue and white symbol with a black eye in the middle is thought to ward off evils and harm according to Turkish folks

Minarets stand out everywhere in the Turkey skyline

Various types of Turkish cay are available- Orange cay here in traditional Turkish tea cups

Thinking of all of you back home and those friends we have made along the way…hope you are all doing well and can’t wait to see you all again in the near future!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Some of my thoughts on Turkey:

First of all, I'm hoping that the turkey that you took a photo of did not become someone's dinner shortly afterwards :(

Secondly, what kind of ice cream can be thrown in the air like that? Hmm.....kind of makes you wonder what is in it? Did you guys try and end up with your mouths glued SHUT? Just a thought as I think they have added some crazy glue in that ice cream!

And thirdly my Mum has one of those blue eye things from one of her friends that she used to work with. He gave it to her when he came back from visiting family in Turkey years ago.

Hope you are both safe and having fun and I miss you too. I will write you a novel on Saturday!